Debian development branch - which do you use?

Am 23. Aug, 2002 schwätzte bob smith so:

> I was just curious as to what branch those who use
> debian are currently tracking. From reading polls and
> other articles it seems that most people use sid (for
> dekstop purposes not server use). I've heard some
> horror stories though of people not being able to boot
> after something going horribly wrong while tracking
> sid. Thoughts?

Don't track sid/unstable unless you're developing or wanting to help find
bugs.

For someone adminning their own desktop I would suggest tracking testing.

For everything else track stable unless you need to get something out of
testing. If it's only one or two things track stable and snag those things
out of testing. If it's a bunch of stuff track testing.

I'm currently tracking stable on all of my boxen. At some point I'll start
tracking testing on one or two boxen. If I start getting involved with
debian development I will track sid on at least one box.

Use /etc/apt/preferences to make intermixing easy.

ciao,

der.hans
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